Prayer and thought in monastic tradition
Subtitle: essays in honour of Benedicta Ward SLG
By: edited by Santha Bhattacharji, Rowan Williams, Dominic Mattos
Edition: First [edition].
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780567082954; 9780567060259; 9780567120991
Subjects: Mönchtum; Gebet; Ordensleben; Prayer; Christianity; Religion; Spiritual life; Spirituelle Theologie; Monastic and religious life
Description: A chronological picture of the development of monastic thought and prayer from the early English Church (Bede, Adomnan) through to the 17th century and William Law's religious community at King's Cliffe. Essays interact with different facets of monastic life, assessing the development and contribution of figures such as Boniface, the Venerable Bede, Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking the history of monasticism East and West : a modest tour d'horizon  -- Columba Stewart, OSB; title: Not by bread alone : St Brendan meets Paul, the Irish spiritual hermit (Navigatio Sancti Brendani, chapter xxvi)  -- Éamonn Ó Carragáin; title: Theology and the paschal controversy : Bede's case against the British church  -- Rowan Williams; title: Bede's view of the place of the Eucharist in Anglo-Saxon life : the evidence of the Historia Ecclestica gentis Anglorum  -- Thomas O'Loughlin; title: Women, prayer and preaching in the early English church  -- Sarah Foot; title: Praying the psalter in Carolingian times : what was supposed to be going on in the minds of monks?  -- Henry Mayr-Harting; title: 'The brother who may wish to pray by himself' : sense of self in Carolingian prayers of private devotion  -- Renie Choy; title: St Boniface, monk and missioner  -- Henry Wansbrough, OSB; title: Turning the world upside-down : St Peter Damian's theology of the spiritual life  -- Gordon Mursell; title: John of Fécamp and Anselm of Bec : a new language of prayer  -- Brian Patrick McGuire; title: 'Minds wandering' and 'monastic stability' in the early monastic letters of Anselm of Bec  -- G.R. Evans -- 'Between dialectic and the sacred Scipture : Anselm of Canterbury and the Bible' / -- Giles E.M. Gasper; title: Miracles and the crusading mind : monastic meditations on Jerusalem's conquest  -- Jay Rubenstein; title: Reading saints lives, in the light of miracle stories in John of Forde's Life of of Wulfric of Haselbury  -- Pauline Matarasso; title: The eye of reason, the eye of love : 'divine learning and affective prayer' in the thought of William of Saint Thierrry  -- E. Rozanne Elder; title: Concerning academic translation and the Latin of Conrad of Eberbach  -- Paul Savage; title: 'Desire for the eternal country' : the laity and the wider world of monastic prayer in medieval England  -- Brian Golding; title: Universities : friend or foe?  -- Alexander Murray; title: Late medieval mysticism : visionary writing as a mode of thought  -- Santha Bhattacharji; title: John Wesley and William Law : the founding of two contrasting religious communities in the eighteenth century  -- Ralph Waller; title: The beloved : the messianic figure of the Song of Songs  -- Edmée Kingsmill, SLG; title: Benedicta Ward, SLG, in a few words : nun, scholar, teacher -- Dominic Mattos.